English Translation

21 found that no more than K. 3,000.-- may be paid to the company. This matter has not yet been settled. 69 The attached special report shows that the substantial grants required for the maintenance of the company in the camaraderie house cannot be paid by the Reichsverein and are not to be provided by the acting directorate of the Land Office. At the request of the acting head of Group VIII, the acting director of the ground office ordered the closure of the camaraderie at the end of Ja- nuar l940. The return of the comradeship house to the secret state police is carried out by the Reichsverein while the financial liquidation is conducted by the Komm. Leitung des Bodenamts. The final result is not yet known. 70 The conversation of the comradeship house Trebetoy was regarded as a matter of the Reichsverein. 4-Sturmbannführer Dr. Röhrig, however, refused to pay the costs by the Reichsverein on the grounds that the Reich Association only took over the property from the Gestapo, but was not interested in any kind of management and that the administration of 4-Oberführer von Gottberg had been entrusted to employees of the Land Office. 71 Since the camaraderie was used as accommodation for the Reichsdeutsche Mitar- beiter der Kommissarischen Leitung and only the presiding committee of the ground office had an interest in maintaining the caparaderie in Třebetov for its employees, the commissar management for